Seven Failure Modes¶
Recognizing common failure patterns early and turning them into concrete safeguards.
Why this chapter matters¶
Known failure patterns help teams avoid repeating preventable mistakes. Naming these patterns builds shared vigilance across engineering, security, and operations.
Key points for your team¶
The value of failure modes is not prediction accuracy, it is preparedness. Teams that can name likely failure patterns earlier can design practical safeguards before those risks materialize in production.
For conference attendees, this chapter is a facilitation tool: use it to run a lightweight risk workshop and convert each likely failure mode into one concrete mitigation owned by the team.
What to review with your team¶
For team discussion, focus on how this chapter can be translated into explicit workflow decisions and accountability points.
In the session context, Seven failure modes will hit you in the first six months. I'll name them fast and you'll recognize at least two. Use that framing to align engineering, platform, and governance stakeholders on concrete next steps.
Put this into practice¶
Pick the two failure modes most likely for your team and define countermeasures before broadening AI usage.